isolations
Sayy-suh-LAY-shuhnzUK/ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃənz/AUS/ˌɑesəˈlæɪʃənz/
- 1Plural of isolation.
Microbiologists performed multiple isolations from the infected samples.
Repeated isolations of the same strain pointed to a single source for the outbreak.
Note
A plural that only some meanings of isolation can take. The plain state of being cut off from other people stays singular: no one speaks of a hermit's isolations. What can be counted are acts and cases: a chemist's repeated isolations of a compound, a hospital's isolations of contagious patients, a country's isolations from particular states, or the transaction-visibility properties of databases.
isolations is a form of isolation
isolation, noun: The state of being separated or detached from other people. Full entry
- Forms
- isolationisolations plural
- Spelling
- isolation → isolations: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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